March 11 
168 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Farmers’ Club Discussion. 
( Continued .) 
in both places. I know plenty in town 
and country who work a great deal 
harder and have a bear of a husband 
too, while I have one who is kind and 
handsome as well. The Georgian doesn’t 
say how large his family is, but he must 
be either rich and hire his work done, or 
poor and lazy. Let him save his indig¬ 
nation for himself or his neighbors And 
as for my being a drudge, I have more 
enjoyment than when I taught school, 
and am as happy as when I went to the 
university. 
What Alla These Farmers ? 
Subscriber, Cattaraugus, N. Y.—Our 
agricultural institute was held last week, 
and I was ashamed of the greeting we 
gave our visiting instructors, who were 
as good as any in the State, but our town 
meeting occurred on the first day of the 
institute, and the farmers flocked in by 
the hundreds to vote, but merely stuck 
their heads in to see what was going on 
and passed on. Well, the next day there 
was no town meeting, and only a few 
were interested enough to turn out to 
hear instruction of much value to them 
if they could only wake up and practice 
what was taught; but, alas ! as soon as a 
proposition was made to take up a corec- 
tion to pay for incidental expenses, half 
of those present began to turn uneasily 
toward the door and to saunter in a 
sheep-killing-dog manner toward it. I 
was ashamed for them. Some of them 
are worth thousands, but never pay to 
help keep up church, school or anything 
of a public-spirited nature ; but they are 
always prompt to pay their taxes. How 
lucky it is such people can’t avoid do¬ 
ing so! 
How to Kill Trees. 
S., on page 37, inquires how to kill trees 
so they will not sprout. Let him kill 
the roots first. All exogenous plants— 
those having bark, wood and pith dis¬ 
tinct, the first two in concentric layers 
around the latter—raise the soluble plant 
food, not sap, to their leaves by capillary 
attraction through the pith and heart- 
wood. In the leaf tissues it is converted 
into true sap or wood and fruit-forming 
matter, which, descending in the outer 
layers and beneath the bark, is deposited 
wherever most needed even to the ex¬ 
tremities of the roots. To kill the 
latter, girdle the tree an inch deep any 
time in July. Grafting is entirely de¬ 
pendent for its results on this beautiful 
law of plant life. No matter how many 
times a tree may have been grafted, the 
variety producing the leaves gives the 
fruit its particular character. This pro¬ 
vision of Nature accounts for its being 
unnecessary to tap the maple very 
deeply, while I suspect that the alternate 
contraction and expansion of its limbs is 
the cause of greater flow during warm 
days and frosty nights, the flavor and 
sweetness having been deposited in its 
tissues the season previous, c. t. sweet. 
Three years ago I girdled a large cork 
bark elm which is one of the worst trees 
to throw up suckers. It grew that year, 
but next spring it died, but happily not 
a sucker came from it and now it stands 
despoiled of the outer ends of the 
branches a convenient support for several 
trailing vines. I advise the inquirer not 
to cut his locusts down until they are 
dead. ISAAC HICKS. 
Tell S., page 37, that the particular 
time to cut trees so that the roots will 
not sprout, is when the latent buds which 
Nature has abundantly provided on some 
kinds, have been exhausted of their vital¬ 
ity. The only effectual way of doing 
this I have tried, is to remove all the bark 
to a height of four or five feet from the 
ground from the trunks or boles, in the 
spring when the leaves are partly grown. 
This cuts off the commissary train and 
puts the roots on starvation fare. When 
the tree ceases to put out leaves it may 
be cut without fear of sprouts. w. h. 
Hew Jersey Farmers Alive. 
Thanks to The Rural for the article 
entitled, That New Agricultural Bill, in 
the issue of February 25. The States of 
New York and New Jersey have both 
had introduced into their legislatures 
bills looking to the formation of a De¬ 
partment of Agriculture with the Com¬ 
missioners of Agriculture at their heads 
Each of these bills seeks to place the ed 
ucational interests of the farmer in the 
power of a political machine, and to 
hand over the said agricultural societies 
and the State experiment stations to the 
hands of the politicians. The farmers 
of the State of New Jersey have pre¬ 
sented a solid front against it, partisan 
issues being left aside. The dominant 
party in that State undertook to make a 
caucus measure of the bill affecting the 
Department of Agriculture, but a public 
meeting of the farmers prevented this. 
For the first time in the history of agri¬ 
cultural legislation in New Jersey, the 
farmers on Monday, February 20, in an 
open meeting in the Senate Chamber ir¬ 
respective of party, protested so strongly 
that the dominant party did not deem it 
best to recommend it as a partisan meas¬ 
ure. The State Grange of New Jersey 
through its legislative committee, op¬ 
posed the bill, and success crowned its 
efforts. The new agricultural bill in 
the State of New York can be success¬ 
fully opposed by the same means. It re¬ 
mains, therefore, with the farmers of 
that State, irrespective of party, to say 
whether their voices shall be heard in 
such a manner as to forever prevent such 
legislation. Will the farmers cooperate 
and do so? Where are the representa¬ 
tives of the State Grange in this conflict? 
Are they alert ? Knowledge is power ! 
Will they use what power they have ? 
J. B. Rogers of the Legislative Com¬ 
mittee of the New Jersey State Grange. 
The Albuminoids and Fat Production. 
Cleveland Linseed Oil Company. —In 
an article in The R. N.- Y. February 18, 
headed Effect of Feeding upon Milk, ap¬ 
pears the following statement: “Dr. Col¬ 
lier, of New York, has recently given his 
testimony in these columns to the effect 
that the fats of the food are most con¬ 
cerned in the production of butter, and 
that the albuminoids are not ‘ in it,’ and 
as it has never been alleged that fats in 
the food increase the nitrogen in the pro¬ 
duct, this evidence is to be taken strictly 
as supporting the same fact as that above 
proved beyond question.” We hardly 
believe that Dr. Collier would state 
broadly that “albuminoids are not in it,” 
for the production of a good quality of 
butter, and would like to have him define 
his position on this question. Even if 
this were his opinion, it is open to argu¬ 
ment, because a well-known agricultural 
chemist and director of a foreign State 
agricultural laboratory (Belgium', has 
stated as a result of his experiments that 
the “transmutation of albuminoids which 
have been absorbed (digested) by the 
animal, yields fatty matter, while the con¬ 
trary would be impossible, and we can 
then replace a portion of the fatty mat¬ 
ter required by substituting albuminoid 
matter, either for growth, fattening, or 
the production of milk and butter, and 
with profit to the animal and its pro¬ 
ducts. We know that fatty matter does 
not play a very important part in tbe 
nourishment of herbivorous animals, nor 
even in that of milch cows of which the 
product is not in relation with the fat in 
their rations, but with content of digest¬ 
ible albuminoids.” 
Henry P. Armsby, Ph. D., Director of 
the Pennsylvania State Experiment 
Station, writes. “That fat can be formed 
from the albuminoids is now denied by 
no one acquainted with the subject. It 
has been observed that in the milk of the 
same cow the quantity of albuminoids 
frequently decreases when that of the 
fat increases, and the reverse. If a doubt 
still remained as to the formation of fat 
from albuminoids, it must disappear on 
a consideration of the results which have 
been obtained on healthy animals with 
an entirely normal food.” 
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